Recently, a 12-year-old boy in Changsha, Hunan Province, failed to get enough sense of achievement in the game because of poor game equipment, so he followed the advice of the "game god", secretly wrote down his parents' payment password, and in just three days, recharged up to 110,000 yuan to four game platforms.
When the little boy's mother knew, she couldn't cry, after all, this 110,000 was all the family's savings. In desperation, the little boy's mother had to ask the police at the police station for help, hoping to return the money. In the end, with the help of the police, three game platforms admitted to refunding the recharge payment, totaling about 90,000 yuan.
In fact, the question of the huge kryptonite of underage players has been reported by the media many times.
Not long ago, a 12-year-old Xiaoyu in Hangzhou was addicted to online games and recharged more than 300 times in the game behind his parents' back, spending more than 70,000 yuan in total. Asked about the reason for the recharge, Xiaoyu said that the skin can make the damage value higher, and it will look cooler and better.
In addition, Xiaoyu also spent more than 40,000 yuan on the shopping platform to buy game accounts, because those accounts "are adult accounts, and there are some limited skins that can't be bought." "In less than two months, the little girl spent more than 100,000 yuan.
There have been many similar cases before. Xiao Rui, a 16-year-old in Mianyang, Sichuan Province, recharged nearly 100,000 yuan into the game in three months, with a maximum recharge of more than 1,000 yuan and a minimum of 6 yuan.
Bear children who recharge thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in the game without their parents' knowledge, and there are many more.
For a long time, the recharge of games for minors has been a very headache for parents and game companies.
For parents, because minors do not have a concept of money, do not know what is right and what is wrong, so without their knowledge, the money charged by minors on the game platform should be returned;
For game companies, the relevant props have been used after the minor game recharge, and the refund will inevitably cause operational losses at this time...
In short, about the recharge of minors' games, it has been troublesome for a long time.
In order to solve this problem, in 2020, the SPC announced that the game recharge carried out by minors under the age of 8 can ask the game company to refund the money charged;
Minors over the age of 8 need to consider the amount of the minor's recharge and the suitability of age, intelligence, etc. to measure whether they can request a refund.
Parents finally don't have to worry about being chased back by the money spent by the bear children! Like the bear child's game recharge behavior mentioned above, it is obviously not in line with the principle of suitability, and parents can ask the game company for a full refund.
But then again, the thousands of recharges of minors in the game are really just a problem for the game company? I think that every parent of a bear child who has made a lot of money in the game should reflect on it.